Improvement in plows



WOOD & BY INGTON.

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DUDLEY WOOD AND A. BYINGTON, OF BYRON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLOWS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28,323, dated May 15, 1860.

- which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section.

The nature of our invention consists in the arrangement of devices hereinafter described.

The advantages of our invention consist in, first, obtaining very great strength and firmness with a small amount of metal by means of tubular form of both'beam and standard and the deep seat in the line of draft upon the top of the standard, 011 which the beam rests and is bolted; second, the facility with which lodged stalks, stubble, or other material is disposed of by being forced up within the front curvature of beam and standard, from which place they fall out of the way with the furrow-' ard are cast in one piece, as in various other plows.

The operation or manner of connecting and disconnecting the beam and standard is to place the two bolts a a, which are square, close to the heads, with the heads downward into the recesses cast within the standard. They are thus held intheir places while the beam with corresponding holes through its center is dropped down over them to its seat upon the top. The end of the iron brace from the handle is slipped over the rear bolt, and the nuts are then put on and screwed down tightly. The bolt of the secondaryjoint b is afterward inserted and madefast with a nut. This makes a perfect attachment of both beam and standard, and also secures both handles firmly to the beam.

A reversal of the above-described process of course disconnects the whole.

The handles, share, clevis, 850,, are of the 

